Windows & Stones: Selected Poems
Published by University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, PA, 1972
- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
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Signed by the translator on the title page. Publisher's presentation slip laid in. 84 pp. Octavo [21 cm]; full blue cloth with title gilt title stamped on backstrip, graphic stamped in black to front board which matches the printed illustration on the front cover of the dust jacket. A clean and tight copy. Signed by May Swenson (the translator of this work) in black ink on the title page. Small publisher's presentation slip is laid in, printed "University of Pittsburgh Press. This book comes to you with the good will of the University of Pittsburgh Press." Translated from the Swedish by the renowned Swedish-American poet May Swenson; she also penned the five-page-long preface to this work. Swenson was "born of Swedish parents in Utah, she spoke Swedish as her first language. She brings this heritage to her superb translation (quoted from the dust jacket copy)." Indeed, Swenson's translation won a medal from the International Poetry Forum in the year it was published. A remarkable poet and translator, Tomas Transtromer (1931 - 2015) was also a psychologist who worked with addicts, convicts, and disabled people. Transtromer won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2011.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Windows & Stones: Selected Poems
- Author
- Transtromer, Tomas. Translated by May Swenson (with Leif Sjoberg)
- Publisher
- University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, PA
- Publication year
- 1972
- Condition
- Near fine
- Dust jacket
- near fine
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Edition
- First edition.
- Seller catalogs
- Poetry
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